April 2008 - Posts
Hi, Ned here again. The Microsoft Office 2007 product group has released a terrific new whitepaper that covers the ins and outs of deploying Group Policy settings for Office 2007, and they asked that we share the love with you here from AskDS. The whitepaper
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Introduction Hello, this is Jonathan from the Directory Services team. The Network Device Enrollment Service (NDES) is one of the role services of the Active Directory Certificate Services (ADCS) role. It implements the Simple Certificate Enrollment Protocol
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Here are the new KB articles related to Directory Services published between April 5-11. Also note that we’ve updated the KB article on Netlogon logging ( 109626 ) to make it clear that Netlogon logging works the same way in Vista/2008 as it does in 2003/XP/2000.
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Hi. Jim from DS here to tell you more than you ever wanted to know about the Security Descriptor Definition Language (SDDL). Windows uses SDDL in the nTSecurityDescriptor. The SDDL defines string elements for enumerating information contained in the security
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Here are the new KB articles related to Directory Services published between 3/22-4/4. Obviously the big news has been the release of the 2008 remote administration tools (RSAT) and Hyper-V RC0. We use Virtual Server heavily for testing and reproducing
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Hi, Tim here. Ever heard of a Best Practice Analyzer , otherwise known as a ‘BPA’? It’s a type of tool that many of our product or support teams have been creating the last few years which can be used to gauge the general health of a
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Hi. This is Jim from Directory Services. I spend a great deal of time working through remote Easy Assist / Live Meeting sessions, sometimes with client machines half way round the globe and the latency can be excruciating. In my experience I have found
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Hi, Brantley here. I would like to share some information with you about how digital certificates work. Understanding the concepts about how certificates work is important when troubleshooting PKI issues. Let’s start by defining digital certificate:
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Sorry for the delay. I'm having to catch up on some posts after being on vacation. In the meantime, plenty of wonderful Directory Services-related KB articles have been published. As expected, lots of content for Windows Server 2008 now that the product
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Craig here. In Directory Services we support a whole bunch of components which each have their own debug logging. A while back I pulled together all the information from various KB and TechNet articles and distilled it into a concise list of how logging
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